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The Kona crab, Ranina ranina (Linnaeus, 1767), is a brachyuran crustacean in the Raninidae family. The species is fairly cosmopolitan throughout the tropical and sub-tropical Indo-Pacific region. Kona crabs are commonly referred to as spanner crabs (Australia) and the species is also known as the red frog crab, frog crab, papa’i kua loa, and krab ziraf. The southeast Queensland spanner crab fishery is the largest known fishery for the species, landing in excess of 1500 metric tons in annual catch records since the mid-1990s (Dichmont and Brown, 2010). Directed fisheries for the species also exist in Western Australia, New South Wales (Australia), the Philippines, Japan, Thailand, Mauritius, Reunion, and the Seychelles archipelago (Boulle, 1995; Cook, 1987; Krajangdara and Watanabe, 2005; Tahil, 1983). This benchmark assessment implements fishery data and biological information collected in the Main Hawaiian Islands (defined in Yau (2018); Fig. 1), with the exception of life history information borrowed from Australia to estimate natural mortality (explained in Section 1.1 Biology and Life History).

NMFS is specifying annual catch limits (ACLs) and accountability measures (AMs) for Pacific Islands crustacean and precious coral fisheries of American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Guam, and Hawaii. Species that hav...

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Published Date:

2015

Description:

NMFS proposes to specify an annual catch limit (ACL) of 346,000 lb of Deep 7 bottomfish in federal waters of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ; generally 3 to 200 nautical miles or nm) around the main Hawaiian Islands (MHI), as recommended by the...

This reports represents the first review of the Kona crab fishery in Hawaii in more than 30 years. The primary objective of this report is to assess the stock of the Kona crab fishery in the Main Hawaiian Islands. A summary of known life history char...

The Western Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) recommended that NMFS specify multi-year annual catch limits (ACL) and accountability measures (AM) effective in fishing years 2015-2018, the environmental effects of which are analyzed in this...

"The challenges surrounding the robustness and utility for scientific and management purposes of the Hawaii Department of Aquatic Resources (DAR) commercial data have been known for some time. There are issues with both data quality and data structur...